as a teenager, what was your favorite band?
this band can be a local, main stream etc..... my favorite local band was little blue crunchy things, they were from milwaukee, wi.
(even hung out with them)!
U2 (I already learned how to ignore those preaching to me so Bono didn't/doesn't bug me)
Def Leppard
And now all of you can laugh it up with the following, but when I was sure no one could hear or see me, I'd listen to:
Heart
The Bangles
Miami Sound Machine
got the september awake tonight.
marked on the front cover special issue in orange letters.
the title is " is there a creator".
The biochemist is none other than Micheal Behe, a strong proponent of Intelligent Design. The interview is unimpressive and I'm sure the WTS didn't have to edit anything on this one.
Most of the magazine is boring to read except for the fact that the WTS has finally openly conceded the reality of microevolution. While they admit its linked with adaptation, they still deny that accumulating many of these changes can bring about new "kinds".
parents are naturally concerned that their children not make the same mistakes they did.
the society seem to be worried about the power of this impulse to protect one's children.
page 161 of the new book live with jehovah's day in mind reads:a dampening of our expectation of jehovah's great day could reveal itself in the advice we give to our children or to others.
I'm sure there'll be a number of marrionettes that'll follow this "direction", but I doubt many jw parents will do more than pay lip service to it. From what I'm seeing here in the Golden Horseshoe, many jw parents are still in favour of their children choosing some kind of post secondary education. True, its primarily college (mostly the skilled trades or something with business/admin ), but theirs no foul if thats where their interests lie.
well, iast weekend was my dc.
it was at the merrell center in katy tx.. for those of you not in this district, this is the one which encompasses the houston, texas area.
several years ago we were holding our dc in the astrodome, the whole district on one weekend.
I'm all too familiar with the crazy stampede to the seats when the doors open. There are multiple entrances to Copps Coliseum in Hamilton Ontario, but the "powers that be" have always decided to only open the doors on Bay Street first. So last year, one toddler was knocked out of its mother's arms by morons dashing and shoving up the stairs. If it weren't for the quick save of the young guy to the side (and behind) of her, the child would have been trampled on. This year they were opening the doors at 3 different locations. They only make changes when they fear they'll be liable.
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well for all you lucky people out there that didn't have to suffer through any of this year's convention, i've decided to try and make available the drama (based on 1 kings 13).. i apologize for the poor quality of the audio (no video sorry).
hopefully this link works.. http://www.bestsharing.com/files/ms00184242/dcdrama.mp3.html
Well for all you LUCKY people out there that didn't have to suffer through any of this year's convention, I've decided to try and make available the drama (based on 1 Kings 13).
I apologize for the poor quality of the audio (no video sorry). Hopefully this link works.
http://www.bestsharing.com/files/ms00184242/dcdrama.mp3.html
I'm all for it. But like a couple of posters on here have also expressed, I think that all the unwanted zygotes and embryos slotted for destruction, should be used first, before creating other batches.
hey guys,
quick question: one of the elders just called me about a talk i am supposed to give tomorrow night.
well its obvious he is not aware that i don't live at home anymore (he made the comment that he hasn't seen me in awhile but figures its cause of the recent district convention stuff) and for me to let him know either way wether or not i would be giving the talk.
StillA
Only say you have to cancel this time around ...and offer no reason for it...if he's nosy, just say you've got it under control, thanks and ciao. I figure that'll buy you a couple week's time, before you get other nosy calls ....may be even longer, depending on the elders and how (in)visible you were in the local jw community.
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and the official wts response?
new light, silence, imperfect man or imperfect bird?.
Species as defined by Ernst Mayr: "are groups of actually or potentially interbreeding natural populations which are reproductively isolated from other such groups."
So Shining One when you said this:
That is micro-evolution which is not in debate. Speciation has not been proven nor has it been demonstratedm, which is one reason that evolution is a THEORY.
One doesn't require enormous amounts of genetic change for speciation to occur. Small genetic differences can cause substantial morphological or physiological differences. These differences may prevent indivduals from being acceptable as mates to most members of the group. That smaller group will reproduce among themselves and further small changes may even make them have sterile hybrids with the parent group. You then have a new species.
If you're looking for some tangible examples that strongly support speciation, look into the phenomenon of ring species as well as sibling species.
i have found an 111 page report written about jf rutherford.. however, it is written in italian!.
if anyone is interested, i can attempt to translate portions of it into english using babel fish and post what is produced here.. --vm44
After having done a cursory scan of the website I fully agree with stromboli. Its all material that we've come across on english sites. What VMM saw about Rutherford was just one part that was dealing with the history of the JWs. There's a nice section on their doctrines and on the NWT as well as many experiences of ex-jws.
Stromboli,
I don't understand why Sergio would expect so much from his site's visitors. I'm sure more Italian JWs would read all of it if they didn't have to give up their anonimity.
the story of judas iscariot in the gospels provides the reader with a fascinating picture of how the plot and details of the narratives were gleaned from the ot and embellished in different ways.
the evangelists and the tradents that preceded them looked to the ot (and other affiliated literature) for information on what happened to jesus, employing a haggadaic method of biblical interpretation similar to how rabbis and authors of pseudepigraphs in the second temple era expanded the brief stories of the patriarchs in genesis with reams of new detail and legendary episodes -- through the means of exegesis aimed to penetrate beyond a plain reading of the text to "fill in the blanks" of what must have happened.
the authors of the gospels also scoured through the ot to discover what was supposed to happen to jesus and wrote their stories accordingly.
Hey hooberus,
You've got to spend the time and attentively read through it. Noting how all the details relate to each other is what'll make it enjoyable. I've always found the harmonization of Judas' demise unconvincing because he buys the field in one version but not in the other so there's a real unsatisfactorily answered discrepancy. No presuppositions. Its plain that both of them can't be 100% accurate in all their detail. Then to see other harmonizations including yet another tradition of how Judas "payed" for his betrayal makes you wonder even more.
Finding fairly strong parallels in older source material is fascinating. But I've always loved myths and this excellent and well researched work is awesome in how it shows myth being shaped over time.